DevOps Engineer Jobs in the South East

Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South East is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 February 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 205 192
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 110 149 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.14% 1.17% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.24% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 60 101 164
10th Percentile £45,712 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,675 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £71,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -2.44% +6.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £91,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% -6.45% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 8,593 12,040 14,341
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.45% 94.54% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,217 8,926 8,946
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,375 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £40,196
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,600 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £86,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -11.29% +3.33%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 18 February 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 February 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +41 70 £67,500 -5.26% 10
Thames Valley +8 22 £63,750 +3.32% 23
Berkshire +22 19 £55,000 -9.61% 13
West Sussex +33 12 £60,000 -12.73%
Surrey +15 9 £67,500 -3.57% 1
Oxfordshire +13 3 £75,000 +13.21% 4
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 18 February 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 110 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (55.45%) Agile
3 59 (53.64%) Finance
4 52 (47.27%) Social Skills
5 46 (41.82%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (41.82%) Software Engineering
6 44 (40.00%) Software Delivery
7 43 (39.09%) Kubernetes
7 43 (39.09%) CI/CD
8 42 (38.18%) Customer Experience
8 42 (38.18%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (37.27%) Mentoring
9 41 (37.27%) Relational Database
10 40 (36.36%) Azure
11 37 (33.64%) Prototyping
11 37 (33.64%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (33.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 37 (33.64%) DBS Check
11 37 (33.64%) Design Patterns
11 37 (33.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (33.64%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (33.64%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (33.64%) User Research
11 37 (33.64%) Data Integration
11 37 (33.64%) Analytics
11 37 (33.64%) User Stories
11 37 (33.64%) Oracle Application Server
11 37 (33.64%) Oracle EBS
11 37 (33.64%) Military
11 37 (33.64%) Integration Testing

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (33.64%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (10.00%) nginx
3 6 (5.45%) IIS
4 5 (4.55%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (33.64%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 40 (36.36%) Azure
2 33 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (25.45%) AWS
4 27 (24.55%) Serverless
5 13 (11.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 10 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (8.18%) GitHub
9 8 (7.27%) Azure AKS
10 7 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (6.36%) Azure Functions
11 6 (5.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (5.45%) Azure Pipelines
11 6 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (5.45%) Cloudflare
12 3 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.73%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.18%) DNS
2 5 (4.55%) HTTPS
2 5 (4.55%) IPsec
2 5 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.64%) Network Security
4 3 (2.73%) Firewall
4 3 (2.73%) SSL
5 2 (1.82%) Internet
6 1 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.91%) VPN
6 1 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (37.27%) Relational Database
2 37 (33.64%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (33.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 37 (33.64%) RDBMS
3 10 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.55%) Couchbase
4 5 (4.55%) MySQL
4 5 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 35 (31.82%) Git
2 21 (19.09%) Jenkins
3 19 (17.27%) SonarQube
4 14 (12.73%) Selenium
5 13 (11.82%) Artifactory
6 7 (6.36%) Cucumber
6 7 (6.36%) JIRA
7 6 (5.45%) GitLab
7 6 (5.45%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.73%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.91%) Postman
9 1 (0.91%) TeamCity
General
1 59 (53.64%) Finance
2 52 (47.27%) Social Skills
3 42 (38.18%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (33.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (33.64%) Influencing Skills
4 37 (33.64%) Military
4 37 (33.64%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.91%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.36%) RabbitMQ
2 8 (7.27%) .NET
2 8 (7.27%) JSON
2 8 (7.27%) REST
3 7 (6.36%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.36%) Serverless Framework
4 6 (5.45%) ARM Templates
4 6 (5.45%) Loki
5 1 (0.91%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.91%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.91%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.91%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.91%) MERN Stack
5 1 (0.91%) RESTful
5 1 (0.91%) SOAP
5 1 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (33.64%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (10.91%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.82%) IoT
5 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Life Science
5 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (25.45%) Linux
2 10 (9.09%) Windows
3 4 (3.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (55.45%) Agile
3 46 (41.82%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (41.82%) Software Engineering
4 44 (40.00%) Software Delivery
5 43 (39.09%) CI/CD
6 42 (38.18%) Customer Experience
7 41 (37.27%) Mentoring
8 37 (33.64%) Analytics
8 37 (33.64%) Data Integration
8 37 (33.64%) Data Modelling
8 37 (33.64%) Design Patterns
8 37 (33.64%) ERP
8 37 (33.64%) Integration Testing
8 37 (33.64%) ITIL
8 37 (33.64%) Prototyping
8 37 (33.64%) Service Management
8 37 (33.64%) User Research
8 37 (33.64%) User Stories
9 23 (20.91%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 24 (21.82%) Python
2 19 (17.27%) PowerShell
2 19 (17.27%) SQL
3 10 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 8 (7.27%) Bash
4 8 (7.27%) Java
4 8 (7.27%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.36%) Bicep
5 7 (6.36%) C#
5 7 (6.36%) Groovy
5 7 (6.36%) Perl
6 5 (4.55%) PHP
7 3 (2.73%) Go
8 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (33.64%) DBS Check
2 11 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 10 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) QA
2 5 (4.55%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (22.73%) Docker
2 11 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (39.09%) Kubernetes
2 36 (32.73%) Terraform
3 17 (15.45%) Ansible
4 8 (7.27%) Grafana
5 7 (6.36%) Packer
5 7 (6.36%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.73%) Nessus
6 3 (2.73%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.91%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (33.64%) Oracle
2 7 (6.36%) AppDynamics
2 7 (6.36%) Atlassian
2 7 (6.36%) IBM
2 7 (6.36%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.36%) Rackspace
3 6 (5.45%) Veracode
4 4 (3.64%) VMware
5 3 (2.73%) Juniper
6 1 (0.91%) Aruba
6 1 (0.91%) Cisco
6 1 (0.91%) Ruckus Wireless
6 1 (0.91%) Spotify